Numbers 26:18 Made Simple

KJV ORIGINAL

These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

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✦ MADE SIMPLE

These are the family groups of Gad's descendants, and when they were counted, there were 40,500 of them.

⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE

This verse records that the tribe of Gad had grown to 40,500 people when Moses took a census of Israel.

📚 Historical Context

This verse comes from the second census of Israel, taken near the end of their 40 years in the wilderness before entering the Promised Land. Moses was counting all the fighting men to prepare for the conquest of Canaan and to determine how the land would be divided among the tribes.

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